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Article: Concerns raised on breast milk

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January 1, 1999
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Universally, doctors agree that the best nourishment for infants, physically and psychologically, is mother's breast milk. Public health advocates are beginning to ask if breast milk is a potential source of exposure to toxic substances for nursing infants. Toxic chemicals including DDT, PCBs, TCDD, mercury, lead, and other substances have been found in breast milk. New information about the existence of these chemicals in the environment is reviving the issue. Dr. Jill Stein and Dr. Ted Schettler wrote an editorial in a Lexington, Massachusetts, newspaper that a nursing infant in the United States consumes five times the daily allowable levels of PCBs set by international health standards ...

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